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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...history of western thought, the imagination has been seen as performing such a wide range of different functions that it is problematic whether it can be understood as a single faculty at all. In imagination we are able to think of what is absent, unreal or even absurd, and so it appears to grant us almost unlimited conceptual powers. Yet it also seems to inform our...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...history of humanity. (MacArthur, 2015) In 2010, she set up the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the world’s leading proponent of the circular economy. [Described image] Figure 17 (a) Ellen MacArthur celebrating after becoming the fastest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed; (b) Dame Ellen MacArthur delivering a TED (technology, entertainment and design) talk on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...history, dating back centuries across many different cultures. However, it is only in more recent times that games of chance have been analysed mathematically, with some very interesting and powerful mathematics developing as a result, in the area now known as probability theory. The correspondence between two 17th century French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...family...Design: 1.1 Design - Design is everywhere. Look around you, and consider the objects you see. For example, in my office I can see my computer, a telephone, a pen, a coffee mug, my sunglasses, a stapler, my wallet, my diary, a one pound coin, a postcard, carpet tiles, a desk, a chair, window blinds, a jacket, a radiator, a strip light, and much more besides. All...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...history. And we’ve done that knowingly. And so it’s absolutely right that governments must be held to account on how they are delivering against meeting their climate targets now. It’s also really important that we’re getting alongside some of our public institutions, helping them to collaborate with each other, finding connections to people to organisations who...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of parliamentary democracy. Biological evolution refers to the fact that the many organisms that inhabit the Earth today are different from those that existed in the past. The processes that have brought about changes among living organisms are many and varied and one of them, but only one of them, is...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...history of the Gran Caffè in Italy goes back to the introduction of coffee into Europe in the early seventeenth century. The first European coffee houses were established in Venice, a centre of trade between Italy and the East. The coffee houses were a meeting place for intellectuals and artists, and often became cultural landmarks. A few famous examples are the Gran...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...history. As the 1920s persisted the image of Glasgow became steadily worse. The new horror story was gang warfare. A combination of heavy policing and heavier sentencing broke the back of these fighting gangs by the start of the 1930s. But then, in 1936 came the event which totally damned Glasgow. And that was the publication of the novel "No Mean City". Listen to this....
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr